Principal Software Engineer

DLS Discovery, LLC

Principal Software Engineer providing architectural judgment across product areas at KLDiscovery. Mentoring developers and enforcing engineering standards while collaborating with various teams.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $140,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Angular.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identify and raise risks across multiple modules, including security risks and downstream platform impacts, before they reach production
Provide architectural guidance across multiple product areas and make cross-module design decisions
Work closely with Team Leadership and Architects to translate architecture decisions into work the Engineering team can execute
Write and refine requirements for features in collaboration with Product and Team Leadership
Provide input on Engineering and coding standards and hold the team to them
Mentor and guide less experienced engineers toward solutions, making it a learning experience rather than just handing out answers
Identify technical debt across projects and use a data-driven approach to advocate for addressing it
Support multiple product areas concurrently and context-switch between efforts as priorities shift

Requirements

What you’ll need

Track record as a senior or principal-level engineer building and maintaining web applications across multiple product areas or organizations
Strong proficiency in Angular and .NET (C#); experience with API design and building services that other teams consume
Demonstrated history of identifying and mitigating technical risk across multiple codebases or product areas
Ability to operate independently, make sound architectural trade-off decisions, and communicate those decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Understanding of how to design and develop with security in mind, particularly in environments handling sensitive client data
Experience mentoring engineers at various levels and elevating a team's overall output

Benefits

Comp & perks

competitive total compensation that includes base pay, bonus potential, inclusive benefits, wellness programs, and perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

Angular.NETC#API designweb applicationsarchitectural trade-off decisionssecurity designtechnical risk mitigationtechnical debt managementcoding standards

Soft Skills

mentoringcommunicationcollaborationindependent operationproblem-solvingleadershipcontext-switchingguidanceadvocacyteam elevation